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Dan Quayle moment? Obama flubs spelling of 'respect'
Fox News ^ | 7 Mar 2014

Posted on 03/07/2014 2:51:03 PM PST by mandaladon

Could a White House spell-off be in the works between President Obama and former Vice President Dan Quayle?

In a throwback to the latter's infamous misspelling of the word "potato," Obama accidentally misspelled "respect" while introducing singer Aretha Franklin during a tribute to "Women of Soul" at the White House Thursday.

“When Aretha first told us what … R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her,” Obama said, pausing briefly before the audience began laughing, apparently realizing his mistake. “She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans and women and anyone else who felt marginalized because of what they looked like, who they loved. They wanted some respect.”

Also looking for some respect is Quayle, who in 1992 was schooled by a sixth grader on how to spell potato.

Quayle was at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, N.J., when he relied on a notecard provided by the school on the spelling of the word potato, a word used in the contest. The notecard incorrectly added an “e” to the end of the word, and Quayle advised the student to spell it that way.

In his 1994 autobiography, Quayle called the day “a defining moment of the worst kind imaginable." He added, “Politicians live and die by the symbolic sound bite.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New Jersey
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To: Williams

Plus I think Quayle’s spelling of “potatoe” is an acceptable alternate spelling?

Correct.

Here’s an Oxford Dictionaries blog stating the spelling was often used by the New York Times and the Washington Post up until the fateful Dan Quayle Day That Changed History. After that, it was never seen again in either newspaper:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/spelling-can-be-a-hot-potatoe/


41 posted on 03/07/2014 6:23:37 PM PST by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: Williams

Plus I think Quayle’s spelling of “potatoe” is an acceptable alternate spelling?

Correct.

Here’s an Oxford Dictionaries blog stating the spelling was often used by the New York Times and the Washington Post up until the fateful Dan Quayle Day That Changed History. After that, it was never seen again in either newspaper:

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/01/spelling-can-be-a-hot-potatoe/


42 posted on 03/07/2014 6:25:31 PM PST by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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To: mandaladon; a fool in paradise

The fact alone that the world remembers the Dan Quayle episode is an excellent example of the power of propaganda and the MSM OVER all of us, like it or not!


43 posted on 03/07/2014 6:32:40 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Very true.

Getting rich is the best revenge though, and as Cerberus Chairman of Global Investments, he’s laughing all the way to the bank.


44 posted on 03/07/2014 6:36:34 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: mandaladon
Hussein is not anywhere near the brightest bulb on the tree. And it is not because of this one incident. It is a string and series of things that he has not done, and has not known that shows he is stupid and poorly educated.
45 posted on 03/07/2014 6:44:53 PM PST by Chickensoup (leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
If Zer0 was a Republican, this would be the lead story on every one of the alphabet networks, New York Times, etc

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

46 posted on 03/07/2014 7:54:12 PM PST by GOPJ ("Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), always currying favor with the press...."(nailed) - William Bigelow)
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To: mandaladon

The dope-smoker-in-chief can’t spell a simple word? What a shocker...NOT. I’m always in shock when he can put a sentence together without TOTUS.


47 posted on 03/07/2014 8:04:23 PM PST by ASouthernGrl (BHO sucks - literally or metaphorically, you decide.)
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To: GOPJ

Thank you. I don’t think it’s anything we didn’t already know.


48 posted on 03/07/2014 8:19:25 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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To: mandaladon

There is a very good reason why Obama had trouble spelling the word respect. The word is not in his vocabulary. He simply doesn’t know what it is. He has no respect for anyone. Now, “contempt” is a word I am absolutely certain he could spell.


49 posted on 03/07/2014 10:06:20 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Republicans are expected to have brains and democrats are expected to stay stupid because the Party depends on it.


50 posted on 03/08/2014 3:08:28 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mandaladon

I always thought it was “ RESPCT, what my brudda means to me, RESPCT, take out the PCT, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me...”

Of course, back then, we didn’t have Lyrics.com to tell us exactly what the lyrics were. So, I just sang it like I “heard” it.

I remember seeing Aretha Franklin singing that on the D.C. Mall once during a Cure Cancer rally. I’d taken my junior high school daughter to D.C.to see the sites. Just happened to be the weekend of the rally.


51 posted on 03/08/2014 5:55:25 AM PST by moovova
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To: gaijin

Well....its not like it was spelt out in the song or anything.
Guess the teleprompter man will end up getting audited.


52 posted on 03/08/2014 5:58:30 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: mandaladon

Dan Quayle gave us an extra E. Zero takes an E.

There is two types of people, givers and takers.


53 posted on 03/08/2014 12:44:14 PM PST by Studebaker Hawk (These geeks are a dime-a-dozen. I'm looking for the man with the dimes. Freddy Blassy)
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